even beyond, who are sick of pretending and Changing Earth” with Darlene Zschech, and of weeks we decided that, with the Coronavirus
want what’s “real”, not what’s fake or what can both Hillsong United and Young & Free have outbreak, and the world living in such fear and
feel defeating to our soul. It’s almost like being also previously communicated this message. with so much anxiety, we just felt like it would
exhausted by the counterfeits for Jesus. But it’s a message and prayer that is never be such a powerful thing to sing over people.
irrelevant. Please tell us about this song? When we were writing this album, I had lots
Its really cool because from the moment that
of conversations with our songwriters saying,
we presented this song to young people, [Laura] To be perfectly honest, we weren’t “We need to sing songs that aren’t so self-
to our youth here in Australia, it just caught planning on releasing this song right now, that introspective, so let’s focus on God and sing
on straightaway from the moment that it wasn’t part of our plan. Just in the last couple to who He is”.
introduced. And it just went on, it feels right, it
feels like now, and I’m so grateful for that. It’s a As we sing to him and put claim to who God is
little bit of a statement, but it’s just nice to see and sing out these full declarations, as we do
young people who want Jesus. that, we are reminding our souls who God is.
So that’s really where “Lord Send Revival” has
[WM] And the song, “Lord Send Revival”, is come from, and I love it because it says, “Lord
releasing this Friday as a single. You’ve returned send revival, Lord send it now, a move of your
to a theme that has been visited in the past by spirit, heaven break out”, and there is one line
Hillsong - Revival. 1998’s “Touching Heaven,
that says, “You’ve done it before, would you do
Lord Send Revival
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